On May 22, 2:04*pm, 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
wrote:
I'm living in a wooded area and am trying to hit our club repeater
reliably. *It's cloudy now so I'm and getting a bit of ducting but I
have a lot of trees, mostly poplars, in the direct path. *I would have a
line of sight if not for the trees as I'm up enough in altitude. *I can
cut the trees, they're mine, but finding the right ones is difficult and
i don't want to waste the whole grove.

I go from keying the repeater with no intelligible signal to not being
able to hit it. *Today I actually have an S meter reading due to the
clouds. I am currently using a J-pole and will put up a Yagi soon but
wonder if NVIS would work on 2m? *I have only seen references to it
being applied in HF.

'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
N6SXR

Im convinced that my J antenna that I used while camping radiated
mostly verticaly. The situation sounds very similar to yours. I
couldnt hit the repeater back home with 50 watts using the J- while
my wife could make contacts on her HT on the same repeater, Her
antenna was either a telescoping .5 wl or 5/8 wl connected directly to
her HT.

Jimmie